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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [32r] (68/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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(e) Adminisiration. —The town being now the property of
the Bakhtiari khans is entirely controlled by them or their
agents. Three years ago a certain amount of revenue was paid
to ’Arabistan but the town and district is gradually cutting itself
more and more away from ’Arabistan and ruled by the Bakhtiari,
who own much property in the neighbourhood as well as the
town itself. The present chief, Azizullah Khan, is strict but
does not tyrannise the people. No alcoholic drinking nor
prostitutes are allowed and only 1 opium smoking den. As
however in most native villages there is no attempt at sanita
tion.
(7) MUHAMMARAH. —Lat. 30*25*40. Long. 48*11*13.
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{a) General Description .—The capital and most important
town of bouthern Arabistan, and it may be described as the
sole seaport and entrepot of foreign trade in all ’Arabistan.
Mnhammarah stands on the right or north bank of the
Haffar canal, a continuation of the Karun river. The native
houses begin some 1J miles above the confluence of the Haffar
and the Shatt-al-’Arab, and the frontage of the town extends
upwards from that point, between which and the Shatt-al-
’Arab are the new offices and bungalows of the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company. The town stands on alluvial soil, and the bank of the
canal, which would be otherwise subject to erosion, is protected
within the limits of the town by revetments of date logs laid
horizontally, and forming quays and wharves. Muhammarah
is shut in upon its upper side by the date plantations of Nahr
biyab; on its lower side by those of H zan. These groves
however are only J mile deep, and behind the town is an open’
treeless desert stretching away into the interior, no high ground
being within sight of Muhammarah. This country is bounded
on the east by the river Karun, on the west by the Shatt-al-
Arab, and the south by the Haffar canal. The town, which is
constantly increasing in size consists at present of about I 500
houses. Upon the river are some fine modern buddings ; among
the most conspicuous are the offices and residential houses of
the Anglo-Persia;!! Ofi Company, and the palatial mansion of
aji luhammad Ah, Rais-ut-Tujjar. There are 8 mosques,
d public baths and 4 main bazaars, the Shaikh Khaza’l bazaar
which was widened and improved in 1921, the Suq-al-Shatt!
Suq-al-Bedah (i.e„ piece goods), and the Suq-al-Khadarah (meat
ba MCl64CGS e t0Wn ltSelf 18 divided into 4 quarters, Seef
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 181; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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